By Beulah F. Vega Napa Valley College has opened it’s two weekend (02/27- 03/08) run of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods. The almost three-hour-long show tells the story of a baker (Gabriel Logan Reyes) and his wife (Lindsay Stark) who must go into the woods to gather the ingredients needed to lift a curse their…
by Beulah F. Vega Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse delves into the world of Shakespeare once more with its production of Romeo & Juliet running through Feb. 15 on their Monroe Stage. Director Drew Bolander’s adaptation is a traditional (almost) fully uncut production. If you don’t know Romeo & Juliet, the simplest explanation of the…
My guests on the 01/22/26 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were director Drew Bolander and actor Tina Traboulsi from the 6th Street Playhouse production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. The show runs January 23 through February 15 on the Monroe Stage of Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse. Click below to listen:…
When I see a show late in its run, or the run itself is short, I’ll take some time and provide a short take on the production… Bad Seed – 6th Street Playhouse Pluses: performances, technical work Minuses: dated storyline often plays as camp To truly appreciate just how shocking William March’s The Bad Seed…
When I see a show late in its run, or the run itself is short, I’ll take some time and provide a short take on the production… Into the Woods – Spreckels Theatre Company Pluses: cast, live orchestra, costumes, puppetry work Minuses: show length, repetiveness, audio issues Long before the Marvel Cinematic Universe started to…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 10/02/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were Reed Martin and Gwen Nelson from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of The Comedy of Hamlet! (a prequel). The show runs in the Frank Chong Studio Theatre on the Santa Rosa Junior College campus…
By Harry Duke The Jacobethan Theatre Workshop’s Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) summer series concludes with a production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. The Shakespeare comedy features one of the Bard’s greatest characters as well as the usual masquerading and comeuppances.The show has two remaining performances – Saturday, August 23, at 7:30 pm, and…
My guest on the August 14 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Lukas Raphael, Artistic Director of the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop. The JTW’s second Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) production for this season is The Merry Wives of Windsor. It runs in the meadow adjacent to the 6th Street Playhouse parking lot…
by Harry Duke The “green-eyed monster” is running amok in the field next to the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa with the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop’s Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) production of Othello. The show has two remaining performances – Saturday, August 9, at 7:30 pm, and Sunday, August 10, at 6:00 pm. After…
My guests on the August 7 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Justin Thompson and Mari Pagan from the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop production of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) continues in Santa Rosa with this second of two productions in the meadow adjacent to the 6th…
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